Answer: a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
Explanation:
The motivations for the first wave of colonial expansion can be summed up as God, Gold, and Glory: God, because missionaries felt it was their moral duty to spread Christianity, and they believed a higher power would reward them for saving the souls of colonial subjects; gold, because colonizers would exploit resources also to claim more land.
